Leather bound
1552 · Venetia
by Boccaccio, Giovanni and Girolamo Ruscelli
Venetia: V. Valgrisio, 1552. Leather bound. Fair (heavy wear to leather boards with sections worn off. Expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise clear and binding is fairly tight.). Bound in brown leather boards; five raised bands and gilt tooling on spine; all edge red tinted; red and blue marble illustrated end papers; bw illustrated title page; (10), 487, (10) pp. The rear of the book contains a separate section titled, "Vocabolario Generale di Tutte le Voci Vsate dal Boccaccio..." which is [67] pp. Text in Italian. "La vita di m. Giovan Boccaccio descritta da m. Francesco Sansovino": p. 1-6.
(Inventory #: 184537)
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